Ideas on how to maintain a more stylish adult looking room?

[shateredsoul]

Hi all,

I was wondering if you all had any ideas on how to make a more adult looking game room? Also, how can i decorate it with video game related art/logos/paraphernalia without it looking like a kids room...

I would like it also to be a bar and I'm saving up for a foozball (sp?) table, a pool table, and a darts set. It could be like a lounge.. a cool lounge.

Also, does anyone have any good ideas for how to frame old nintendo games? I want to frame them and put them up, but I have no ideas of what might work.

thanks!

-shatered

[fastbilly1]

Framed prints of tasteful content look fantastic. Something like what shaolin242 did here:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... a&start=30

Or if you can find ones that look like movie posters:
http://www.kolumbus.fi/retrogameland/ga ... poster.jpg

[opticledilusi0n]

you can never go wrong with one of these

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Well, you just made my day.

[enderfall]

I think the key is to be as clean and organized as possible. Use of shelving is key. Try one of those glass enclosed shelves to store certain items that you don't plan on using much, but want to display.

I think by simply having the bar and game tables you should be able to naturally pull it off and make it "adult".

[J T]

I think the trick to making it look like an adult room is to keep it tidy and make sure it's not busting at the seems with games.

You can keep your controller mess hidden away by putting them in a shoe rack

In my room, I keep my gaming display small so I can show off some select titles, but I keep a lot of stuff in a CD binder so that the room maintains its ambience and doesn't have the garish look of a collector's space that is overflowing with colored labels. I like to see people's monster collections like that, and I have a pretty large collection, but my own preference is to not show off so many of my games that they dominate the room. Instead, I keep things tucked away in closets, CD binders, or in the entertainment center.

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 28&t=11589

[SpaceBooger]

My gameing stuff is in my basement that has a sports bar look: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 28&t=14344

I posted some suggestions for someone else here: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 80#p165080

[Hobie-wan]

"It says Fra Gee Lay, it must be from France"

To frame anything that's not paper, you want to find some shadowboxes. I imagine googling for those will net you some idea on how to mount NES carts in one.

[J T]

My gameing stuff is in my basement that has a sports bar look: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 28&t=14344

I posted some suggestions for someone else here: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 80#p165080

I always liked that your one room has a comic shop feel and the other a kind of sports bar. Another one with a nice sports bar feel is King's room:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... &sk=t&sd=a

[gradualmeltdown]

trying to do the same myself right now. The key is to minimize clutter. Whether it is too many figures or random posters things just heaped into place don't look cool. I also think cheap crappy furniture recycled late in life for usage in the gaming rooms sucks. I had to buy all new stuff when I moved into the new house this month. All the stuff I've been using for years just looked like crap in the space.

As others have said it is important to create "talking points" in the room that stick out as points of interest. I set a cocktail round with stools near the wetbar in my basement pointed towards a glass showcase and my import collections. When people sit to have a drink my Rez "trance vibrator" or collection of Yuzo Koshiro CD's jump right out as they are featured. Starts fun converstations.

IMO if you have to much crap everywhere the average gamer just doesn't see any of it. Just a heap of crap. If you have a shit ton of really cool stuff rotate it in and out of storage. Makes it more fun anyway!